LME Campaigns and Factions

[Iutland]

Regno di Napoli

After the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 18th century, possession of the kingdom again changed hands. Under the terms of the Treaty of Rastatt in 1714, Naples was given to Charles VI, the Holy Roman Emperor. He also gained control of Sicily in 1720, but Austrian rule did not last long. Both Naples and Sicily were conquered by a Spanish army during the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, and Charles, Duke of Parma, a younger son of King Philip V of Spain was installed as King of Naples and Sicily from 1735. When Charles inherited the Spanish throne from his older half-brother in 1759, he left Naples and Sicily to his younger son, Ferdinand IV. Despite the two Kingdoms being in a personal union under the Bourbon kings from 1735 onwards, they remained constitutionally separate.
Being a member of the House of Bourbon, Ferdinand IV was a natural opponent of the French RevolutionNapoleon. In 1798, he briefly occupied Rome, but was expelled from it by French Revolutionary forces within the year. Soon afterwards Ferdinand fled to Sicily. In January 1799 the French armies installed a Parthenopaean Republic, but this proved short-lived, and a peasant counter-revolution inspired by the clergy allowed Ferdinand to return to his capital. However in 1801 Ferdinand was compelled to make important concessions to the French by the Treaty of Florence, which reinforced France's position as the dominant power in mainland Italy.

Ferdinand's decision to ally with the Third Coalition against Napoleon in 1805 proved more damaging. In 1806, following decisive victories over the allied armies at Austerlitz and over the Neapolitans at Campo Tenese, Napoleon installed his brother, Joseph as King of Naples. When Joseph was sent off to Spain two years later, he was replaced by Napoleon's sister Caroline and his brother-in-law Marshal Joachim Murat, as King of the Two Sicilies.
Meanwhile, Ferdinand had fled to Sicily, where he retained his throne, despite successive attempts by Murat to invade the island. The British would defend Sicily for the remainder of the war but despite the Kingdom of Sicily nominally being part of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Coalitions against Napoleon, Ferdinand and the British were unable to ever challenge French control of the Italian mainland.
After Napoleon's defeat in 1814, Murat reached an agreement with Austria and was allowed to retain the throne of Naples, despite the lobbying efforts of Ferdinand and his supporters. However, with most of the other powers, particularly Britain, hostile towards him and dependent on the uncertain support of Austria, Murat's position became less and less secure. Therefore when Napoleon returned to France for the Hundred Days in 1815, Murat once again sided with him. Realising the Austrians would soon attempt to remove him, Murat gave the Rimini Proclamation in a hope to save his kingdom by allying himself with Italian nationalists. The ensuing Neapolitan War between Murat and the Austrians was short, ending with a decisive victory for the Austrian forces at the Battle of Tolentino. Murat was forced to flee, and Ferdinand IV of Sicily was restored to the throne of Naples. Murat would attempt to regain his throne but was quickly captured and executed by firing squad in Pizzo, Calabria. The next year, 1816, finally saw the formal union of the Kingdom of Naples with the Kingdom of Sicily into the new Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. (source: wiki)

The Kingdom of Naples has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Gendarmeria della Guardia Reale
Corazzieri della Guardia Reale
Dragoni della Guardia Reale
Lancieri della Guardia Reale
Cacciatori a cavallo
Corazzieri
Lancieri
Ussari della Guardia Reale
Cacciatori a cavallo della Guardia Reale
Garde du Corps
Velite a cavallo
Cavalleria leggera della Guardia Reale

Marinari della Guardia Reale
Granatieri a piedi della Guardia Reale
Voltaggeri della Guardia Reale
Voltaggeri
Fanteria di Linea della Guardia Reale
5° Reggimento Fanteria di Linea
1e Reggimento Fanteria di Linea
1° Reggimento velite a piedi
2° Reggimento velite a piedi

4-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
6" Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Gioacchino(74)
Capri(74)
Cerere(38)
Fama(32)
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Cavalleria leggera della Guardia Reale

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Najjaśniejsza Rzeczpospolita Polska/Księstwo Warszawskie

The Duchy of Warsaw (Polish: Księstwo Warszawskie; French: Duché de Varsovie; German: Herzogtum Warschau; Russian: Варшавское герцогство, Varshavskoye gertsogstvo) was a Polish state established by Napoleon I in 1807 from the Polish lands ceded by the Kingdom of Prussia under the terms of the Treaties of Tilsit. The duchy was held in personal union by one of Napoleon's allies, King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony. Following Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia, the duchy was occupied by Prussian and Russian troops until 1815, when it was formally partitioned between the two countries at the Congress of Vienna.

The area of the duchy had already been liberated by a popular uprising that had escalated from anti-conscription rioting in 1806. One of the first tasks for the new government included providing food to the French army fighting the Russians in East Prussia.
The Duchy of Warsaw was officially created by Napoleon Bonaparte, as part of the Treaty of Tilsit with Prussia. Its creation met the support of both local republicans in partitioned Poland, and the large Polish diaspora in France, who openly supported Napoleon as the only man capable of restoring Polish sovereignty after the Partitions of Poland of late 18th century. Although it was created as a satellite state (and was only a duchy, rather than a kingdom), it was commonly hoped and believed that with time the nation would be able to regain its former status, not to mention its former borders.
The newly (re)created state was formally an independent duchy, allied to France, and in a personal unionKingdom of Saxony. King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony was compelled by Napoleon to make his new realm a constitutional monarchy, with a parliament (the Sejm). However, the duchy was never allowed to develop as a truly independent state; Frederick Augustus' rule was subordinated to the requirements of the French raison d'état, who largely treated the state as a source of resources. The most important person in the duchy was in fact the French ambassador, based in the duchy's capital, Warsaw. Significantly, the duchy lacked its own diplomatic representation abroad[citation needed]. with the
In 1809, a short war with Austria started. Although the Battle of Raszyn was won, Austrian troops entered Warsaw, but Duchy and French forces then outflanked their enemy and captured Kraków, LwówPartitions of Poland. After the Battle of Wagram, the ensuing Treaty of Schönbrunn allowed for a significant expansion of the Duchy's territory southwards with the regaining of once-Polish and Lithuanian lands.

As a result of Napoleon's campaign in 1812 against Russia, the Poles expected that the Duchy would be upgraded to the status of a Kingdom and that during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, they would be joined by the liberated territories of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Poland's historic partner in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. However, Napoleon did not want to make a permanent decision that would tie his hands before his anticipated peace settlement with Russia. Nevertheless he proclaimed the attack on Russia as a second Polish war.
That peace settlement was not to be, however. Napoleon's Grande Armée, including a substantial contingent of Polish troops, set out with the purpose of bringing the Russian Empire to its knees, but his military ambitions were frustrated by a combination of the Russian defense and a brutal winter climate; few returned from the march on Moscow. The failed campaign against Russia proved to be a major turning point in Napoleon's fortunes.
After Napoleon's defeat in the east, most of the territory of the Duchy of Warsaw was retaken by Russia in January 1813 during their advance on France and its allies. The rest of the Duchy was restored to Prussia. Although several isolated fortresses held out for more than a year, the existence of the state in anything but name came to an end. Alexander I of Russia created a Provisional Highest Council of the Duchy of Warsaw to govern the area through his generals.

Although many European states and ex-rulers were represented at the so-called Congress of Vienna in 1815, the decision-making was largely in the hands of the major powers. It was perhaps inevitable, therefore, that both Prussia and Russia would effectively partition Poland between them; Austria was to more-or-less retain its gains of the First Partition of 1772.
Russia demanded to gain all territories of Duchy of Warsaw. It kept all its gains from the three previous partitions, together with Białystok and the surrounding territory that it had obtained in 1807. Its demands for the whole Duchy of Warsaw were denied by other European powers.
Prussia regained territory it had first gained in the First Partition, but had had to give up to the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. It also regained as the "Grand Duchy of Posen" (i.e. Poznań) some of the territory it had conquered in the Second Partition, and had again had to give up in 1807. This territory formed an area approximately 29,000 km² in size.
The city of Kraków and some surrounding territory, previously part of the Duchy of Warsaw, were established as a semi-independent Free City of Kraków, under the "protection" of its three powerful neighbours. The city's territory measured some 1164 km², and had a population of about 88,000 people. The city was eventually annexed by Austria in 1846.
Finally, the bulk of the former Duchy of Warsaw, measuring some 128,000 km in area, was re-established as what is commonly referred to as the "Congress Kingdom" of Poland, in personal union with the Russian Empire. De facto a Russian puppet state it maintained its separate status only until 1831, when it was effectively annexed to the Russian Empire. (source: wiki)

The Duchy of Warsaw has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
14. Pułk Kirasjerów
Żandarmeria
Szaserzy
Ułani Legii Nadwiślańskiej
13. Pułk Huzarów
Elitarni Szaserzy Legii Nadwiślańskiej
3. Pułk Szwoleżerów-Lansjerów
10. Pułk Huzarów Elitarnych1. Pułk Strzelców Konnych
5. Pułk Strzelców Konnych
2. Pułk Szwoleżerów-Lansjerów
6. Pułk Szwoleżerów-Lansjerów
8. Pułk Szwoleżerów-Lansjerów

Grenadierzy Legii Północnej
17. Pułk Grenadierów
5. Pułk Grenadierów
Weterani
Grenadierzy Gwardii Narodowej
Fizylierzy Legii Nadwiślańskiej
Woltyżerowie
Woltyżerowie Legii Nadwiślańskiej

Légion de la Vistule (Legia Nadwiślańska)
Légion du Nord (Legia Północna)

3-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
5,5" Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Szaserzy

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was the formal name of the United Kingdom from 1 January 1801 until 12 April 1927. It was formed by the merger of the Kingdom of Great Britain (itself having been a merger of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland) and the Kingdom of Ireland, with Ireland being governed directly from Westminster through its Dublin Castle administration.

During the War of the Second Coalition (1799–1801), Britain occupied most of the French and Dutch colonies (the Netherlands had been a satellite of France since 1796), but tropical diseases claimed the lives of over 40,000 troops. When the Treaty of Amiens ended the war, Britain was forced to return most of the colonies. The peace settlement was in effect only a cease fire, and Napoleon continued to provoke the British by attempting a trade embargo on the country and by occupying the German city of Hanover (a fief of the British crown). In May 1803, war was declared again. Napoleon's plans to invade Britain failed due to the inferiority of his navy, and in 1805, Lord Nelson's fleet decisively defeated the French and Spanish at Trafalgar, which was the last significant naval action of the Napoleonic Wars.

The series of naval and colonial conflicts, including a large number of minor naval actions, resembled those of the French Revolutionary Wars and the preceding centuries of European warfare. Conflicts in the Caribbean, and in particular the seizure of colonial bases and islands throughout the wars, could potentially have some effect upon the European conflict. The Napoleonic conflict had reached the point at which subsequent historians could talk of a "world war". Only the Seven Years' War offered a precedent for widespread conflict on such a scale.
In 1806, Napoleon issued the series of Berlin Decrees, which brought into effect the Continental System. This policy aimed to eliminate the threat of the United Kingdom by closing French-controlled territory to its trade. The United Kingdom's army remained a minimal threat to France; the UK maintained a standing army of just 220,000 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, whereas France's army exceeded a million men — in addition to the armies of numerous allies and several hundred thousand national guardsmenagricultural capacity far outstripped that of the United Kingdom.
However, the United Kingdom possessed the greatest industrial capacity in Europe, and its mastery of the seas allowed it to build up considerable economic strength through trade to its possessions from its rapidly new expanding Empire. That sufficed to ensure that France could never consolidate its control over Europe in peace or threaten British colonies outside the continent thanks to Britain's naval supremacy. However, many in the French government believed that cutting the United Kingdom off from the Continent would end its economic influence over Europe and isolate it. Though the French designed the Continental System to achieve this, it never succeeded in its objective.
The Spanish uprising in 1808 at last permitted Britain to gain a foothold on the Continent. The Duke of Wellington and his army of British and Portuguese gradually pushed the French out of Spain and in early 1814, as Napoleon was being driven back in the east by the Prussians, Austrians, and Russians, Wellington invaded southern France. After Napoleon's surrender and exile to the island of Elba, peace appeared to have returned, but when he escaped back into France in 1815, the British and their allies had to fight him again. The armies of Wellington and Von Blucher defeated Napoleon once and for all at Waterloo

Simultaneous with the Napoleonic Wars, trade disputes and British impressment of American sailors led to the War of 1812 with the United States. A central event in American history, it was little noticed in Britain, where all attention was focused on the struggle with France. The British could devote few resources to the conflict until the fall of Napoleon in 1814. American frigates also inflicted a series of embarrassing defeats on the British navy, which was short on manpower due to the conflict in Europe. A stepped-up war effort that year brought about some successes such as the burning of Washington D.C., but many influential voices such as the Duke of Wellington argued that an outright victory over the US was impossible.
Peace was agreed to at the end of 1814, but not before Andrew Jackson, unaware of this, won a great victory over the British at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815 (news took several weeks to cross the Atlantic before the advent of steam ships). The Treaty of Ghent subsequently ended the war. As a result, the Red River Basin was ceded to the US, and the Canadian border (now fixed at the 49th parallel) completely demilitarised by both countries, although fears of an American conquest of Canada persisted through the 19th century. (source: wiki)

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
1st Life Guards (The Cheeses)
2nd Life Guards (Cheese Mongers)
1st Royal Dragoons (The Bird Catchers)
2nd Royal North British Dragoons (Scots Greys).
2nd Queen's Dragoon Guards (The Bays)
4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
7th Queen's Own Hussars
10th Prince of Wales' Hussars.
1st KGL Dragoons
1st KGL Hussars
2nd Kings German Legion Light Dragoons
Brunswick-Oels Ulans
Brunswick-Oels Hussars
Rohan Hussars

95th Rifles (The Grasshoppers).
60th Rifles (Royal Americans)
Grenadiers
Royal Marines
1st Foot Guards (The Coalers)
2nd Foot Guards (Coldstreamers)
3rd Foot Guards (Scots Guards)
1st Foot Royal Scots (Pontius Pilate's Bodyguard)
2nd Foot Queen's Royal Regiment (Kirke's Lambs)
5th Foot (The Fighting Fifth)
18th Foot (Royal Irish)
23rd Foot Royal Welch Fusiliers (Nanny Goats)
27th Foot Inniskilling (The Skins)
71st Highlanders
79th Foot Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
87th Prince of Wales' own Irish Regiment
88th Foot Connaught Rangers (The Devil's Own)
92nd Gordon Highlanders
Kings German Legion Sharpshooters
KGL Light Foot (The Green Rascals)
Calabrian Free Corps
Brunswick-Oels Rifles
3rd 'Estero' Sicilian Infantry Regiment
Chasseurs Britanniques
York Rangers
Hompesch's Chasseurs
Loewenstein's Chasseurs

6-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber KGL Foot Artillery
9-lber Foot Artillery
9-lber Hanoverian Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
9-lber KGL Horse Artillery
4.4" Foot Howitzer
5" Foot Howitzer
5.5" KGL Foot Howitzer
5.5" KGL Horse Howitzer
Experimental Howitzer
Rockets
Royal Marine Artillery

Navy (number=guns):
HMS Caledonia(122)
HMS Nelson(122)
HMS Victory(106)
HMS Brittania(106)
HMS Royal Sovereign(106)
HMS Ville de Paris(106)
HMS Saint Lawrence(106)
HMS Queen Charlotte(106)
HMS Dreadnought(98)
HMS Temerraire(98)
HMS Impregnable(98)
HMS Tonnant(80)
HMS Bellerophon(74)
HMS Belleisle(74)
HMS Mars(74)
HMS Colossus(74)
HMS Polyphemus(64)
HMS Africa(64)
HMS Hindustan(50)
HMS Centurion(50)
1st rate ship-of-the-line (122)
1st rate ship-of-the-line (106)
2nd rate ship-of-the-line (98)
3rd rate ship-of-the-line (80)
Captured 3rd rate ship-of-the-line (80)
3rd rate ship-of-the-line (74)
Captured 3rd rate ship-of-the-line (74)
3rd rate ship-of-the-line (64)
Captured 3rd rate ship-of-the-line (64)
4th rate ship (50)
5th rate (38) Frigate
5th rate (32) Frigate
6th rate (24) Frigate
Carronade Frigate
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

60th Rifles ("Royal Americans")

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Herzogtum Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Mecklenburg-Schwerin was a duchy (after 1815: grand duchy) in northern Germany created in 1348, when Albert II of Mecklenburg and his younger brother John were raised to Dukes of Mecklenburg by King Charles IV. Ruled by the successors of the Nikloting House of Mecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin remained a relatively poor state of the Holy Roman Empire along the Baltic littoral between Holstein and Pomerania.

The dynasty's progenitor, Niklot (1090-1160) was a chief of the Slavic Obotrite tribe federation, who fought against the advancing Saxons and was finally defeated in 1160 by Henry the Lion in the course of the Wendish Crusade. Niklot's son Pribislav submitted himself to Henry and in 1167 came into his paternal inheritance as the first Prince of Mecklenburg.

After several divisions among Pribislav's descendants, Henry II of Mecklenburg (1266-1329) until 1312 acquired the lordships of Stargard and Rostock and bequested the reunified Mecklenburg lands - except the County of Schwerin and Werle - to his sons Albert II and John. After they both had received the ducal title, the former lordship of Stargard was recreated as the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Stargard for John in 1352. Albert II retained the larger western part of Mecklenburg and after he had acquired the former County of Schwerin in 1358, he made Schwerin his residence.

In 1363, Albert's son Duke Albert III campaigned in Sweden, where he was crowned king one year later. In 1436, the last Lord of Werle, William, died without a male heir. Because William's son-in-law, Ulric II of Mecklenburg-Stargard, had no issue, his line became extinct upon Ulric's death in 1471. All possessions fell back to Duke Henry IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who was then the sole ruler over all of Mecklenburg.

In 1520 Henry's grandsons Henry V and Albert VII again divided the duchy, creating the subdivision of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, which Duke Adolf Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin inherited in 1610. In a second partition of 1621 he granted Güstrow to his brother John Albert II. Both were deposed in 1628 by Albrecht von Wallenstein as they had supported Christian IV of Denmark in the Thirty Years' War, nevertheless the Swedish Empire enforced their restoration three years later. When John Albert's II son, Duke Gustav Adolph of Mecklenburg-Güstrow died without male heirs in 1695, Mecklenburg was reunited once more under Duke Frederick William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Frederick William however was challenged by his uncle Adolf Frederick II, the youngest son of Adolf Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, who also claimed Güstrow, leading to a fierce succession dispute. In 1701 the parties, pushed by the Imperial states of the Lower Saxon Circle, settled their quarrels: The Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, roughly a recreation of the medieval Stargard lordship, was split off and given to Adolf Frederick II. The continued conflicts and partitions weakened the rule of the dukes and affirmed the picture of Mecklenburg as one of the most backward territories of the Empire.
With the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Frederick Francis I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin received the title of a Grand Duke. (source: wiki)

The Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Leibgarde zu Pferde
Jäger zu Pferde
Husaren

Voltigeure
Leib-Grenadier
Grenadier-Garde-Bataillon
Grenadiere

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
10-lber Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Jäger zu Pferde

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Stato Pontificio

The Pontifical States were among the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia (after which the Papal States, in less territorially extensive form, continued to exist until 1870).

The Papal States comprised territories under direct sovereign rule of the papacy, and at its height it covered most of the modern Italian regions of Romagna, Marche, Umbria and Lazio. This governing power is commonly called the temporal power of the Pope, as opposed to his ecclesiastical primacy.

The plural Papal States is usually preferred; the singular Papal State (equally correct since it was not a mere personal union) is rather used (normally with lower-case letters) for the modern State of Vatican City, an enclave within Italy's national capital, Rome. Vatican City was founded in 1929, again allowing the Holy See the political benefits of territorial sovereignty.
The French Revolution proved as disastrous for the temporal territories of the Papacy as it was for the Roman Church in general. In 1791 the Comtat Venaissin and Avignon were annexed by France. Later, with the French invasion of Italy in 1796, the Legations were seized and became part of the revolutionary Cisalpine Republic.

Two years later, the Papal States as a whole were invaded by French forces, who declared a Roman Republic. Pope Pius VI died in exile in France in 1799. The Papal States were restored in June 1800 and Pope Pius VII returned, but the French again invaded in 1808, and this time the remainder of the States of the Church were annexed to France, forming the départements of Tibre and Trasimène.

With the fall of the Napoleonic system in 1814, the Papal States were restored once more. From 1814 until the death of Pope Gregory XVI in 1846, the Popes followed a reactionary policy in the Papal States. For instance, the city of Rome maintained the last Jewish ghetto in Western Europe. There were hopes that this would change when Pope Pius IX was elected to succeed Gregory and began to introduce liberal reforms. (source: wiki)


The Pontifical States has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Carabinieri a Cavallo
Guardia Nobile Pontificia

Voltaggeri
Elite a Granatier

4-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Carabinieri a Cavallo

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Regno di Sardegna

Kingdom of Sardinia or Sardinia, also (not officially) Piedmont-Sardinia, Sardinia-Piedmont or Piemonte, refers to the states of the House of Savoy from 1720 or 1723 onwards, following the award of the crown of Sardinia to King Victor Amadeus II of Savoy under the Treaty of The Hague (1720). This compensated him for the loss of the crown of Sicily to Austria and allowed him to retain the title of king, as the title "King of Sardinia" (and also the kingdom) had existed since the 14th century.

After 1720 the kingdom was a composite state and besides Sardinia included Duchy of Savoy, Piedmont, Nice, Duchy of Aosta, Duchy of Monferrato, Vercelli and Asti, the Marquisate of Saluzzo and part of the Duchy of Milan; Ligurian Republic, including Genoa, was added by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Officially, the nation's name was Kingdom of Sardinia; the House of Savoy maintaining a national claim to the thrones of Cyprus and Jerusalem, although both had long been under Ottoman rule and never conquered (the title was merely a formal title). During most of the 18th and 19th centuries, the political and economic capital of the kingdom was Turin in Piedmont on the Italian mainland.

In 1792 Piedmont-Sardinia joined the First Coalition against the French First Republic, but was beaten in 1796 by Napoleon and forced to conclude the disadvantageous Treaty of Paris (1796), giving the French army free passage through Piedmont. On December 6, 1798 Joubert occupied Turin and forced Charles Emmanuel IV to abdicate and leave for the island of Sardinia. The provisionary government voted to unite Piedmont with France. In 1799 the Austro-Russians briefly occupied the city, but with the Battle of Marengo (1800), the French regained control. The island of Sardinia stayed out of the reach of the French for the rest of the war.

In 1814 the kingdom was restored and enlarged with the addition of the former Republic of Genoa, now a duchy, and it served as a buffer state against France. This was confirmed by the Congress of Vienna. In the reaction after Napoleon, the country was ruled by conservative monarchs: Victor Emmanuel I (1802–21), Charles Felix (1821–31) and Charles Albert (1831–49), who fought at the head of a contingent of his own troops at the Battle of Trocadero, which set the reactionary Ferdinand VII on the Spanish throne. Victor Emanuel I disbanded the entire Code Napoléon and returned the lands and power to the nobility and the Church. This reactionary policy went as far as discouraging the use of roads built by the French. These changes typified Piedmont. The Kingdom of Sardinia industrialized from 1830 onward. A constitution, the Statuto Albertino, was enacted in the year of revolutions, 1848, under liberal pressure, and under the same pressure Charles Albert declared war on Austria. After initial success the war took a turn for the worse and Charles Albert was defeated by Marshal Radetzky at Custozza.(source: wiki)


The Kingdom of Sardinia has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Cacciatori a cavallo
Cavalleggeri di Piemonte

Voltaggeri
Carabinieri della Guardia Reale
Guardia Svizzera
Fanteria Leggera
Battaglione Cacciatori di Savoia
Granatieri della Guardia Reale

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Maria Teresa(50)
Commercio di Genova(50)
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Guardia Svizzera

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Regno di Sicilia

The Kingdom of Sicily was a state that existed in the south of Italy from its founding by Roger II in 1130 until 1816. It was a successor state of the County of Sicily, which had been founded in 1071 during the Norman conquest of southern Italy. Until 1282 the Kingdom (sometimes called the regnum Apuliae et Siciliae) covered not only the island of Sicily, but also the whole Mezzogiorno region of southern Italy and the Maltese archipelago.

Under the terms of the Treaty of Rastatt in 1714, Naples was given to Charles VI, the Holy Roman Emperor. He also gained control of Sicily in 1720, but Austrian rule did not last long. Both Naples and Sicily were conquered by a Spanish army during the War of the Polish Succession in 1734, and Charles, Duke of Parma, a younger son of King Philip V of Spain was installed as King of Naples and Sicily from 1735. When Charles inherited the Spanish throne from his older half-brother in 1759, he left Naples and Sicily to his younger son, Ferdinand IV. Despite the two Kingdoms being in a personal union under the Bourbon kings from 1735 onwards, they remained constitutionally separate.

Being a member of the House of Bourbon, Ferdinand IV was a natural opponent of the French Revolution and Napoleon. In 1798, he briefly occupied Rome, but was expelled from it by French Revolutionary forces within the year. Soon afterwards Ferdinand fled to Sicily. In January 1799 the French armies installed a Parthenopaean Republic, but this proved short-lived, and a peasant counter-revolution inspired by the clergy allowed Ferdinand to return to his capital. However in 1801 Ferdinand was compelled to make important concessions to the French by the Treaty of Florence, which reinforced France's position as the dominant power in mainland Italy.

Ferdinand's decision to ally with the Third Coalition against Napoleon in 1805 proved more damaging. In 1806, following decisive victories over the allied armies at Austerlitz and over the Neapolitans at Campo Tenese, Napoleon installed his brother, Joseph as King of Naples. When Joseph was sent off to Spain two years later, he was replaced by Napoleon's sister Caroline and his brother-in-law Marshal Joachim Murat, as King of the Two Sicilies.

Meanwhile, Ferdinand had fled to Sicily, where he retained his throne, despite successive attempts by Murat to invade the island. The British would defend Sicily for the remainder of the war but despite the Kingdom of Sicily nominally being part of the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Coalitions against Napoleon, Ferdinand and the British were unable to ever challenge French control of the Italian mainland.

After Napoleon's defeat in 1814, Murat reached an agreement with Austria and was allowed to retain the throne of Naples, despite the lobbying efforts of Ferdinand and his supporters. However, with most of the other powers, particularly Britain, hostile towards him and dependent on the uncertain support of Austria, Murat's position became less and less secure. Therefore when Napoleon returned to France for the Hundred Days in 1815, Murat once again sided with him. Realising the Austrians would soon attempt to remove him, Murat gave the Rimini Proclamation in a hope to save his kingdom by allying himself with Italian nationalists. The ensuing Neapolitan War between Murat and the Austrians was short, ending with a decisive victory for the Austrian forces at the Battle of Tolentino. Murat was forced to flee, and Ferdinand IV of Sicily was restored to the throne of Naples. Murat would attempt to regain his throne but was quickly captured and executed by firing squad in Pizzo, Calabria. The next year, 1816, finally saw the formal union of the Kingdom of Naples with the Kingdom of Sicily into the new Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.(source: wiki)

The Kingdom of Sicily has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Cacciatori a cavallo
Guardie del corpo

Voltaggeri
Granatieri della Guardia Reale
Granatieri Svizzera

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
6" Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Vesuvio(86)
Tancredi(74)
Guiscardo(74)
Sannita(74)
Archimede(74)
Capri(74)
San Gioacchinno(64)
Venere(38)
Amalia(38)
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Voltaggeri

[Iutland]

Hellenic Republic

In the first stages of the 1821 uprising, various areas elected their own regional governing councils. These were replaced by a central administration at the First National Assembly of Epidaurus in early 1822, which also adopted the first Greek Constitution, marking the birth of the modern Greek state. The councils continued in existence however, and central authority was not firmly established until 1824/1825. The new state was not recognized by the Great Powers of the day, which, after initial successes, was threatened with collapse both from within due to civil war and from without through the victories of the Turco-Egyptian army of Ibrahim Pasha.
By 1827 the Greek revolution had almost been extinguished on the mainland, but by this time the Great Powers had come to agree to the formation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, as stipulated in the Treaty of London. Ottoman refusal to accept these terms led to the Battle of Navarino, which effectively secured complete Greek independence.
In 1827, the Third National Assembly at Troezen established the Hellenic State and selected Count Ioannis Capodistrias as Governor of Greece. Therefore this period is often called Governorate. After his arrival in Greece in January 1828, Capodistrias actively tried to create a functional state and redress the problems of a war-ravaged country, but was soon embroiled in conflict with powerful local magnates and chieftains.
Capodistrias was assassinated by political rivals in 1831, plunging the country into renewed civil strife. He was succeeded by his brother Augustinos, who was forced to resign after six months. The Fifth National Assembly at Nafplion drafted a new royal constitution, while the three "Protecting Powers" (Great Britain, France and Russia) intervened, declaring Greece a Kingdom in the London Conference of 1832, with the Bavarian Prince Otto of Wittelsbach as king. (source: wiki)

Greece has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Lonchoforois Ippeis
Taktikos Stratos
Taktikos Stratos
Ieros Lochos

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
10-lber Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Ieros Lochos

[Iutland]

Kurfürstentum Hannover

In the course of the War of the Second Coalition against France (1799–1802) Napoléon Bonaparte urged Brandenburg-Prussia to occupy the continental British dominions. In 1801 24,000 Brandenburg-Prussian soldiers invaded, surprising Hanover, which surrendered without a fight. In April 1801 the Brandenburg-Prussian troops arrived in Bremen-Verden's capital Stade and stayed there until October of the same year. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland first ignored Brandenburg-Prussia's hostility, but when the latter joined the pro-French coalition of armed neutral powers such as Denmark-Norway and Russia, Britain started to capture Brandenburg-Prussian sea vessels. After the Battle of Copenhagen (1801) the coalition fell apart and Brandenburg-Prussia withdrew its troops.
As part of the German Mediatisation of 25 February 1803, the Electorate received the Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück in real union, whose every second ruler had been alternately staffed by members of the House of Hanover since 1662.
After Britain – this time without any ally – had declared war on France (18 May 1803), French troops invaded Hanover on 26 May. According to the Convention of Artlenburg (5 July 1803), confirming the military defeat of Hanover, the Hanoverian army was disarmed and its horses and ammunitions were handed over to the French. The Privy Council of Hanover, with minister Friedrich Franz Dieterich von Bremer holding up the Hanoverian stake, fled to the trans-Elbian Saxe-Lauenburg, ruled by Britain-Hanover in personal union. Soon later the French also occupied Saxe-Lauenburg.
In autumn 1805, at the beginning of the War of the Third Coalition against France (1805–6), the French occupational troops left Hanover in a campaign against Austria. British, Swedish and Russian coalition forces captured Hanover. In December the Empire of the French, since 1804 France’s new form of government, ceded Hanover, which it didn't hold anymore, to Brandenburg-Prussia, which captured it early in 1806.
On 6 August 1806 the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, thereby doing away with the function of prince-electors electing its emperors. Thus the title of Elector of Brandenburg became meaningless for the Kingdom of Prussia. After it had turned against France, it was defeated in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt (11 November 1806), and France recaptured Hanover.
Following the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807 the new Kingdom of Westphalia was founded, ruled by Napoléon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte, then including territories of the former Electorate of Hesse-Cassel, the ducal Brunswick-Lüneburgian principality Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and formerly Prussian territories. In early 1810 Hanover proper and Bremen-Verden, but not Saxe-Lauenburg, were also annexed by Westphalia. In an attempt to assert the Continental System the French Empire annexed in late 1810 all the continental North Sea coast (up till Denmark) and the areas along the sections of the rivers navigable for seagoing vessels, including Bremen-Verden and Saxe-Lauenburg and some adjacent territories of Hanover proper.
However, the government of George III did not recognise the French annexation, being at war continuously with France through the entire period, and Hanoverian ministers continued to operate out of London. The Privy Council of Hanover maintained its own separate diplomatic service, which maintained links to countries such as Austria and Prussia, with whom the United Kingdom itself was technically at war. The Hanoverian army was dissolved, but many of the officers and soldiers went to England, where they formed the King's German Legion. The Legion was the only German army to fight continually during the whole Napoléonic wars against the French.
French control lasted until October 1813 when the territory was overrun by Russian Cossack troops, and the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig later the same month spelled the definitive end to the Napoléonic client state of Westphalia, as well as the entire Confederation of the Rhine, after which the rule of the House of Hanover was restored. The former electorate became the Kingdom of Hanover, confirmed at the Congress of Vienna in 1814. (source:wiki)

Hannover has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Garde du Corps
Leib-Küirassiere

Grenadiere
Grenadier-Garde
Jägers


1-lber Amussete
3-lber Foot Artillery

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
7-lber Horse Howitzer
6" Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Grenadier-Garde

[Iutland]

Kneževina Srbija

The history of Modern Serbia began with the fight for liberation from the Ottoman occupation in 1804 (Serbian Revolution). The establishment of modern Serbia was marked by the hard fought autonomy from the Ottoman Empire in the First Serbian Uprising in 1804 and the Second Serbian Uprising in 1815, though Turkish troops continued to garrison the capital, Belgrade until 1867. Those revolutions revived the Serbian pride and gave them hope that their Empire might come into reality again. In 1829 Greece was given complete independence and Serbia was given its autonomy, which made her semi-independent from Turkey. During the Revolutions of 1848, the Serbs in the Austrian Empire proclaimed Serbian autonomous province known as Serbian Vojvodina. By a decision of the Austrian emperor, in November 1849, this province was transformed into the Austrian crownland known as the Vojvodina of Serbia and Tamiš Banat (Dukedom of Serbia and Tamiš Banat). Against the will of the Serbs, the province was abolished in 1860, but the Serbs from the region gained another opportunity to achieve their political demands in 1918. Today, this region is known as Vojvodina.
Renewed war alongside Russia against the Turks in 1877 brought full independence for Serbia and large territorial gains toward the south-east, including Niš, henceforth Serbia's second largest city (Treaty of Berlin, 1878). Serbian Kingdom was proclaimed in 1882, under King Milan Obrenović IV. Serbia was one of the rare countries at the time that had its own domestic ruling dynasty on the throne (similarly to Italy). However, millions of Serbs still lived outside Serbia, in Austro-Hungarian Empire (Bosnia, Croatia, Vojvodina, Sandžak) and the Ottoman Empire (South Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia). (source: wiki)


Serbia has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Kopljanici
Elitna pešadija
Lake pješadijske
Elita lake pješadijske

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
10-lber Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Elitna pešadija

[Iutland]

Courland Governorate

Courland Governorate was one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, that is now part of the Republic of Latvia.
The governorate was created in 1795 out of the territory of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia that was incorporated into the Russian Empire as the province of Courland with its capital at Jelgava (called Mitau at the time), following the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Until the late 19th century the governorate was not ruled by Russia but was administered independently by the local Baltic German nobility through a feudal Regional Council (German: Landtag).[3]
The governorate was bounded in north by the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Riga and the Governorate of Livonia; west by the Baltic Sea; south by the Vilna Governorate and Prussia and east by the Vitebsk Governorate and Minsk Governorate. The population in 1846 was estimated at 553,300.
It ceased to exist during the World War I after the German Empire took control of the region in 1915. Russia surrendered the territory by the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk on March 3, 1918.(source: wiki)


Courland has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Elite Infantry
Light Infantry
Sharpshooters

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
10-lber Foot Howitzer

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Elite Infantry

[Iutland]

Les royalistes français/Royaume de France

On the whole, the 18th century saw growing discontent with the monarchy and the established order. Louis XV was a highly unpopular king for his sexual excesses, overall weakness, and for losing Canada to the British. A strong ruler like Louis XIV could enhance the position of the monarchy, while Louis XV weakened it. The writings of the philosophers such as Voltaire were a clear sign of discontent, but the king chose to ignore them. He died of smallpox in 1774, and the French people shed few tears at his passing. While France had not yet experienced the industrial revolution that was beginning in England, the rising middle class of the cities felt increasingly frustrated with a system and rulers that seemed silly, frivolous, aloof, and antiquated, even if true feudalism no longer existed in France.
Upon Louis XV's death, his grandson Louis XVI became king. Initially popular, he too came to be widely detested by the 1780s. Again a weak ruler, he was married to an Austrian archduchess, Marie Antoinette, whose naivety and cloistered/alienated Versailles life permitted ignorance of the true extravagance and wasteful use of borrowed money (however, it should be noted that Marie Antoinette was significantly more frugal than her predecessors). French intervention in the US War of Independence was also very expensive.
With the country deeply in debt, Louis XVI permitted the radical reforms of Turgot and Malesherbes, but noble disaffection led to Turgot's dismissal and Malesherbes' resignation in 1776. They were replaced by Jacques Necker. Necker had resigned in 1781 to be replaced by Calonne and Brienne, before being restored in 1788. A harsh winter that year led to widespread food shortages, and by then France was a powder keg ready to explode.
On the eve of the French Revolution of 1789, France was in a profound institutional and financial crisis, but the ideas of the Enlightenment had begun to permeate the educated classes of society.
On 1792 September 21 the French monarchy was effectively abolished by the proclamation of the French First Republic.

Louis XVI had become the dauphin of France upon the death of his father, the son of Louis XV, in 1765. He married Marie Antoinette of Austria, a daughter of Maria Theresa, in 1770. Louis intervened in the American Revolution against Britain in 1778, but he is most remembered for his role in the French Revolution. France was in financial turmoil and Louis was forced to convene the Estates-General on 5 May 1789.
They formed the National Assembly and forced Louis to accept a constitution that limited his powers on 14 July 1790. He tried to flee France in June 1791, but was captured. The French monarchy was abolished on 21 September 1792 and a republic was proclaimed. The chain of Bourbon monarchs begun in 1589 was broken. Louis XVI was executed on 21 January 1793.
Marie Antoinette and her son, Louis, were held as prisoners. Many French royalists proclaimed him Louis XVII, but he never reigned. She was executed on 16 October 1793. He died of tuberculosis on 8 June 1795 at the age of ten while in captivity.
The French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars spread nationalism and anti-absolutism throughout Europe, and the other Bourbon monarchs were threatened. Ferdinand was forced to flee from Naples in 1806 when Napoleon Bonaparte deposed him and installed his brother, Joseph, as king. Ferdinand continued to rule from Sicily until 1815.
Napoleon conquered Parma in 1800 and compensated the Bourbon duke with Etruria, a new kingdom he created from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. It was short-lived, as Napoleon annexed Etruria in 1807.
King Charles IV of Spain had been an ally of France. He succeeded his father, Charles III, in 1788. At first he declared war on France on 7 March 1793, but he made peace on 22 June 1795. This peace became an alliance on 19 August 1796. His chief minister, Manuel de Godoy convinced Charles that his son, Ferdinand, was plotting to overthrow him. Napoleon exploited the situation and invaded Spain in March 1808. This led to an uprising that forced Charles to abdicate on 19 March in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII. Napoleon forced Ferdinand to return the crown to Charles on 30 April and then convinced Charles to relinquish it to him on 10 May. In turn, he gave it to his brother, Joseph, king of Naples on 6 June. Joseph abandoned Naples to Joachim Murat, the husband of Napoleon's sister. This was very unpopular in Spain and resulted in the Peninsular War, a struggle that would contribute to the downfall of Napoleon.

With the abdication of Napoleon on 11 April 1814 the Bourbon Dynasty was restored to the kingdom of France in the person of Louis XVIII, brother of Louis XVI. Napoleon escaped from exile and Louis fled in March 1815. Louis was again restored after the Battle of Waterloo on 7 July.
The conservative elements of Europe dominated the post-Napoleonic age, but the values of the French Revolution could not be easily swept aside. Louis granted a constitution on 14 June 1814 to appease the liberals, but the ultra-royalist party, led by his brother, Charles, continued to influence his reign. When he died in 1824 his brother became king as Charles X much to the dismay of French liberals. In a saying ascribed to Talleyrand, "they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing" (source: wiki)


The Kingdom of France has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Chevau-Legers Lanciers
Chasseurs à Cheval
Cuirassiers
Chevau-Legers Lanciers de la garde
Hussards de la garde
Dragons de la garde
Cuirassiers de la garde
Garde du Corps
Chasseurs à Cheval de la garde
Gendarmes d'elite de la garde
Grenadiers à cheval de la garde

Carabiniers á pied
Voltigeurs
Grenadiers à pied de la garde
Chasseurs à pied de la garde
Cent-Suisses
Gardes Suisses
Tirailleurs Corses
Légion de Hohenlohe

6-lber Foot Artillery
12-lber Foot Artillery
6-lber Horse Artillery
7-lber Foot Howitzer
6" Foot Howitzer


Navy (number=guns):
Vaisseau de ligne de la Classe Océan (122)
Vaisseau de ligne de la Classe Bucentaure (80)
Vaisseau de ligne de la Classe Téméraire (74)
Vaisseau de ligne de la Classe Pluton (74)
Frégate (38)
Frégate (32)
Corvette (24)
Frégate carronade
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Navire de commerce (Merchantman type)
Navire de commerce (Indiaman type)

Cent-Suisses

[Iutland]

Norge

After Denmark–Norway was attacked by the United Kingdom at the Battle of Copenhagen, it entered into an alliance with Napoleon, with the war leading to dire conditions and mass starvation in 1812. As the Danish kingdom found itself on the losing side in 1814, it was forced, under terms of the Treaty of Kiel, to cede Norway to the king of Sweden, while the old Norwegian provinces of Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands remained with the Danish crown.
Norway took this opportunity to declare independence, adopted a constitution based on American and French models, and elected the Crown prince of Denmark and Norway, Christian Frederick, as king on 17 May 1814. This is the famous Syttende Mai (Seventeenth of May) holiday celebrated by Norwegians and Norwegian-Americans alike. Syttende Mai is also called Norwegian Constitution Day.
Norwegian opposition to the great powers' decision to link Norway with Sweden caused the Norwegian-Swedish War to break out as Sweden tried to subdue Norway by military means. As Sweden's military was not strong enough to defeat the Norwegian forces outright and Norway's treasury was not large enough to support a protracted war, and as British and Russian navies blockaded the Norwegian coast the belligerents were forced to negotiate the Convention of Moss. According to the terms of the convention, Christian Frederik abdicated the Norwegian throne and authorized the Parliament of Norway to make the necessary constitutional amendments to allow for the personal union that Norway was forced to accept. On November 4, 1814, the Parliament (Storting) elected Charles XIII of Sweden as king of Norway, thereby establishing the union with Sweden.Under this arrangement, Norway kept its liberal constitution and its own independent institutions, except for the foreign service. Following the recession caused by the Napoleonic Wars, economic development of Norway remained slow until economic growth began around 1830.
This period also saw the rise of the Norwegian romantic nationalism, as Norwegians sought to define and express a distinct national character. The movement covered all branches of culture, including literature (Henrik Wergeland [1808–1845], Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson [1832–1910], Peter Christen Asbjørnsen [1812–1845], Jørgen Moe [1813–1882]), painting (Hans Gude [1825–1903], Adolph Tidemand [1814–1876]), music (Edvard Grieg [1843–1907]), and even language policy, where attempts to define a native written language for Norway led to today's two official written forms for Norwegian: Bokmål and Nynorsk.

King Charles III John, who came to the throne of Norway and Sweden in 1818, was the second king following Norway's break from Denmark and the union with Sweden. Charles John was a complex man whose long reign extended to 1844. He protected the constitution and liberties of Norway and Sweden during the age of Metternich. As such, he was regarded as a liberal monarch for that age. However, he was ruthless in his use of paid informers, the secret police and restrictions on the freedom of the press to put down public movements for reform—especially the Norwegian national independence movement. (source: wiki)

Norway has access to the following custom LME units:

Army:
Den Kongbergske Eskadron
Grev Herman Wedels Bogstads Livjaegerkorps

Prinds Regentens Livregiment
Dansk-Norsk Grenaderbataljon
Staffelt Brigaden
Dansk-Norsk Infanteribataljon
Dansk-Norsk Skarpskyttebataljon
Frederiksvaerns Feltbataljon
Hafslund Jaegerkorps
Norske Skiløberkorps

6-pundige kanoner (6-lber Foot)
6-pundige beredne kanoner (6-lber Horse)
12-pundige kanoner (12-lber Foot)
7-lber Howitzer
10-pundige Haubitsere (10-lber Howitzer)

Navy (number=guns):
Ship-of-the-line (80)
Ship-of-the-line (74)
Ship-of-the-line (64)
Ship-of-the-line (50)
Frigate (38)
Frigate (32)
Frigate (24)
Brig
Sloop
Experimental 38-gun Steam Ship
Experimental Steam Paddle Frigate
Experimental 80-gun Steam Ship
Trade ship
Indiaman

Grev Herman Wedels Bogstads Livjaegerkorps